Chinese Ceramic Forms

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Chinese ceramic forms.

Earthenware stoneware and porcelain particularly those made in china. Chinese ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles to hand built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns to the sophisticated chinese porcelain wares made for. The first pottery was made during the palaeolithic era. There are two primary categories of chinese ceramics low temperature fired pottery or táo 陶 about 950 1200 and high temperature fired porcelain or cí 瓷 about 1250 1400.

The history of chinese ceramics began some eight thousand years ago with the crafting of hand molded earthenware. Form is the broadest descriptor while type refines this general classification. Neolithic sung dynasty 6000 b c. As an art form only ceramics cover the entire forty five century span of chinese history.

Cultural relics publishing house 2011. More than any other material fired clay has served the needs and satisfied the aesthetic tastes of all segments of society in nearly every culture on earth. Nowhere in the world has pottery assumed such importance as in china and the influence of chinese porcelain on later european pottery has been profound. Chinese ceramic ware is an art form that has been developing since the neolithic period.